The next dorkbot-nyc meeting (and first for this
season!) will take place on Wednesday, October
6th, 7pm at The Tank (http://thetanknyc.com) in
Times Square. See http://dorkbot.org for info &
directions.


Featuring the lovely and talented:

Mary Flanagan: [ineffable]
The project [ineffable] is a collabortative
project by Mary Flanagan and Andrew Gerngross
which reads aggregated emails between two
correspondents and maps the use of language
through the words users utilize in everyday
correspondence. The project explores the
question, Do we have particular OvoiceO in our
daily writing to friends and colleagues? The
collaborators work to bring to the foreground the
primary form of exchange with technology users –
email – through closely examining the use of
language in email systems. Email is used for work
and play, intimate exchange and legal agreements.
How are different kinds of language, and thus
sounds, used in correspondences with different
people? How do we "sound" to those reading our
emails, and how does the email of others sound to
us?
http://www.maryflanagan.com/ineffable/index.htm

Fang-Yu Lin: From the Great Beyond: Internet as
an Entity? Channeling the Net Through a Robotic
Typewriter
Here comes a robotic typewriter that is your
conduit to the virtuality, a medium that channels
the invisible and intangible entity called the
Internet. From the Great Beyond is an interactive
installation that allows the user to engage in
conversation with the Internet using its
keyboard, and the typewriter is able to search
the Internet and print out perhaps whimsical,
maybe intelligent, or simply irrelevant response
to the user's input. By "talking" to the
Internet, one may find out the characteristics of
this being.
http://a.parsons.edu/~linf

James Clar: 3D DISPLAY CUBE
The 3D Display Cube was hand built and
constructed from one thousand individually
controllable LEDs soldered into a 10x10x10
freestanding cube matrix. Each LED acts as one
pixel in the spatial array and can be refreshed
at a rate of over 60 frames per second creating a
low resolution 3D television. Just like any other
display unit, the Cube has an input device
(serial input) that allows data to be sent to the
cube to manipulate the 3D data live. The display
unit can then be hooked up to a camera to allow
for live video input to be displayed spatially,
or to a sound module chip that can take live
audio input to manipulate 3D structures, creating
dynamically changing spatial light sculptures.
http://www.jamesclar.com

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